The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-02-04
MISSING LINKS.

Belle A. D0n0ugh is the name OF q
drug clerk in New Jersey town.
Churches in this country are estimated
to use 10000 gallons of wine every year
for sacramental purposes.
A German entomologist declares that
spiders destroy more insect enemies of
trees than do all the insect-eating birds.
The conscience fund in the treasury
at Washington is approaching tho
round sum OF n quarter OF q million of
dollars.
Philadelphia housokeepers. tired of
vain efforts to get good servants, are
now experimenting with colored help
from the south.
A wealthy New York physician de-
clares it rs his belief that "thc oyster
is the most healthy article of food
known to man."
There is an artesian we'll 1000 feet
deep in Aberdeen, Neb., that throws out
numbers of fish that look like the ordi-
nary brook minnow.
A soldier vino assembled the Pyramid
of Cheops recently, without guide,
slipped and fell to the base. He was
picked up shapeless mass.
The crown prince of Germany is n
thrifty person and not ashamed TO turn
an honest penny by selling milk from
his dairy farm near Berlin.
Capt. Eads, the lmprovcr of the Mis-
sissippi delta, has bought n large tract
of land at Bar Harder, Me-, with the
intention OF building residence there.
In climates where the variation in
temperature is 20 degrees, 400 miles of
railroad track will change over 800
yards in length-nearly yard to n
mile.
An oak that was cut before Shakes
peare's day furnished bit of timber
now in use rs bench in an English
farmers kitchen. The timber did duty
rs roof beam in church for 1874
years. 1t is still as sound as sound can
be.
A boy in Runnclls county, Louisiana,
captured Il small animal known to
naturalists as q stoat, n species of er-
mine. It's fur is white, and it is re-
markable for its length, being able to
enter n rat-holc, and is fourteen inches
long.
The Shasta county California;
Indians have superstition that catfish
were put into the river for the special
purpose of killing off the Indians.
Tncy eat most other kinds, but throw
back into the river all the catfish they
catch.
Bonvin. the painter, arose ut his mar
riage banquet and, addressing his wife
in an inflated STYLE, rcmarkcd: Never
forget, my wife, that you have entered
family of the gown and sword. Was
not my mother seamstress and my
father in the rural police?"
a Paterson, N. j.. justice, after repeat
ing the formula of an oath to Il young
woman. ended as usual by saying kiss
The book" II will not" was the unex-
pected reply. '|The last witness that
was sworn was chewing tobacco, and
one before him had fever blistcrss on
his lips" She was permitted to af-
firm.
An old Mississippi pilot tells the St.
Louis Globe Democrat that the affection
exhibited nv Mark Twain and his ven
cradle mother, now resident of Keo-
kuk, Iowa, is very refreshing. She
always had firm faith in her son,
Samuel, and says of him: "He was al
ways a good boy, Samuel was, though
prone to be miscellaneous. He's always
the same to me-the best son Il mother
ever had.
A Pluto Indian in Virginia City fur
nishcs the following local price list for
game: 'Whitey man pay um two bits
for teal duck aud four bit for mallard,
maybe Pluto bring um. White woman
kick like mule; no want to pay um
Piute only one Bit for mallard and four
bit for gooscn. lniun no sell um gooscu
less than Que dollar quarter. Pluto want
UNI four bits. one for big jack Liability
and two bits for little
Among old papers recently found in
Kingston, N. Y. was a letter written in
I1776 by James Hasbrouck TO his friend
Peter Van Gaasbcck, of Esopus. In the
letter he writes that Gen. Lee has erect
ed battery in .9he Broad Way, near
the Boiling Green" Is it possible, says
the New York Sun, that our historic
Bowling green was not q bowling green
after all, or was James Hasbrouck
simply poor spellefp
An Albany. N. Y. lady suspected that
her cook was playing sweet with the
groccr's clerk. A maid who played spy
reported that the clerk brought the
cook French candy every day, wrapped
in tin foil. Tho maid procured two
specimens OF the French candies" and
the maid and mistress each alto one
Within half an hour they wcrc we'll re.
paid for their curiosity, for the supposed
candles proved to be yeast cakes.